Owning Treasure

Is there a secret for getting the best out of life?
Mrs. Shirley Martin, from Vancouver, Canada, bought a box of buttons for $1, from a Salvation Army second hand store.
A few days later, while mending her husband's shirt, she noticed something glinting, which look like a piece of broken glass.
Her husband thought she was acting crazy when she wanted to take it to be valued by a jeweller. She took it to 12 different jewellers, and Hans Reymer valued it as a diamond, worth $19,300.
For one dollar, she had become very rich .She got more than she expected.
It is very like the parable Jesus told.  “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field. In his excitement, he hid it again and sold everything he owned to get enough money to buy the field." (Matthew 13.44)
What can we learn from these 2 stories?
Is it that life an unfair game of chance - some get lucky and others do not. This doesn't seem to be what Jesus is teaching us. But that may be how you see your own life.
Instead, Jesus is teaching us that we get rich, not from things we have earned or deserved. We become rich when we stumble upon the astonishing truth that we are loved by the heart beating at the centre of the universe. The One who made us believes us to infinitely precious, whatever the world or our own low self-esteem may say. To know his assessment of us transforms our life.
But the treasure in the field (or the diamond in Shirley's button box) could be ignored by the one who finds it. If it was ignored, the one who discovered it would not benefit in any way.
Shirley had to find out the diamond's true value.
In the parable, the farmer had to be sell all and buy the field.
Discovering the treasure is one thing. Owning it is another.
Many people I know, some members of churches like St. Andrew's, are missing out, because they have refused to own the treasure which is under their feet.
How sad! Have you discovered the treasure? Do you now own it? I pray that you do.
Best wishes,
Richard